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Mikasuki language
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| Mikasuki | ||
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| Spoken in: | United States | |
| Region: | Southern Florida | |
| Total speakers: | 500 | |
| Language family: | Muskogean Eastern Muskogean Mikasuki |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | nai | |
| ISO 639-3: | mik | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
The Mikasuki language (also Miccosukee or Hitchiti-Mikasuki) is a Muskogean language spoken by around 500 people in southern Florida. It is spoken by the Miccosukee tribe as well as many Seminoles. The now-extinct Hitchiti language was mutually intelligible with Mikasuki.
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The phonology is apparently:
| Front | Central | Back | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | iː | ĩ | ||||||
| Mid | o | oː | õ | ||||||
| Open | a | aː | ã | ||||||
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | Voiceless | p | t | k | ||
| Voiced | b | |||||
| Affricate | ʧ | |||||
| Fricative | Central | f | ʃ | h | ||
| Lateral | ɬ | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Semivowel | w | j | ||||
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- A Global Linguistic Database: Mikasuki
- Ethnologue report for Mikasuki
- Rosetta Project Archive page on Mikasuki
West, John David. 1962. "The Phonology of Mikasuki." Studies in Linguistics 16:77-91.
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